Linda Cockey, DMA, NCTM, is Professor Emerita and pianist at Salisbury University in Maryland where she initiated and team taught a Wellness in Performance course with an athletic trainer and clinical psychologist for over twenty-five years. The course focused on achieving peak performances, optimal practice techniques and injury prevention. In addition, she taught all levels of piano, music history and form and analysis. She was named Distinguished Professor at Shandong University in Jinan China where she taught piano and lectured on musician’s health. Reginald Gerig, author of Famous Pianist’s and Their Technique invited her to write the annotated wellness bibliography included in the Indiana University Press edition. During her long career at SU, she performed with the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra, Germany as well as several universities on the East coast. Linda also served as music department chair at SU and during that time, the program received their first accreditation from the National Association of Schools in Music (NASM) who also invited her to be visitor and team leader for other schools going through this process.